Make It a New Year's Resolution:
Submit Your Work
Have you ever considered submitting an article for publication? Perhaps the prospect of someone laughing at your work makes you pause or commitments such as schoolwork or personal obligations keep you from submitting. The end of the year at the end of the century/beginning of the millennium is a perfect time to make a New Year’s resolution to stop dragging your feet and get submitting. Opportunities abound for you to get your work published. Graduate school provides a perfect venue for a publication debut, not only do you have research materials close at hand, but you also have faculty who have published many times over and can serve as valuable resources to consult.
If you have not done so already, familiarize yourself with core library and information science journals such as JASIS, Library Trends, and Reference Quarterly, which are recognized as many as being premiere scholarly journals in the field. Read the author submission guidelines carefully. Find out current issues and nascent trends. Talk to your advisor or other faculty members about your ideas for submission. Consider doing an independent study on an area of interest that would result in a paper that could be submitted to journals.
Journals and conference organizers need contributors! Here is a sampling of recent calls for submission:
· Beta Phi Mu Portfolio Competition for Scholarly Achievement. Submit 3 to 5 works in the areas of library science, information science or telecommunications to SIS Room 505 by January 19, 2001. $500 award. Guidelines @ http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~bpm/AwardGuidelines.htm.· Library Administration and Management Association and YBP, Inc. is accepting submissions for the LAMA/YBP Student Development Award. This award is given to honor the best article on a topic in the area of library administration and management written by a student enrolled in a library and information studies graduate program. Deadline: March 31, 2001. For more details see http://www.ala.org/lama/awards/ybp/guidelines.html.
· Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship seeks manuscripts on academic and special librarianship. Guidelines @ http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/accept.htm.
· Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is accepting research and theory papers grounded in scholarly or practical literature. The conference encompasses (but is not limited to) new forms of information institutions; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. For more info. including deadlines see http://www.jcdl.org/
· Research & Statistics Committee of the Management and Operation of User Services section of RUSA is seeking research papers for presentation at ALA 2001, which cover the broad area of reference services such as user behavior, electronic services, reference effectiveness, and organizational structure and personnel. All researchers, including students are encouraged to submit a proposal. Deadline: December 30, 2000. For more info. See full posting on 6th Floor Scholarships & Conference Bulletin Board.¨
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Last updated December 11, 2000